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Bristol Corporation for the Poor 1696-1898

by: E. E. Butcher

Publication date: 1972
Topics: history, Bristol, poor law, welfare, Georgian, Victorian
Publisher: Bristol Historical Association
Collection: bristol-record-society-collection; additional_collections
Language: English
Rights: The pamphlet was published by the Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, based at the University of Bristol. Electronic publication of the pamphlet series was undertaken from 2019 by the Bristol Record Society and the Bristol Historical Association. Scans of the pamphlets were posted initially on the websites of the two bodies. Slightly modified versions of the files began to be uploaded to The Internet Archive in 2023 to aid preservation and improve accessibility. Uploaded by the General Editor: Digitisation of the Bristol Record Society and the Digitisation Officer of the Bristol Historical Association.
Item Size: 18.8M

E. E. Butcher, Bristol Corporation for the Poor 1696-1898 (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 29, 1972), 23 pp.

Pamphlet about Bristol Corporation for the Poor in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Written by Emily Elizabeth Butcher (1896-1987), a former Senior Lecturer in the History Department of the University of Bristol (1932-63), Secretary of the Bristol Record Society and editor of Bristol Corporation of the Poor, Selected Records, 1696-1834 (Bristol Record Society Publications., Vol. III, 1932).

Pamphlet digitised and uploaded by the Bristol Record Society / Bristol Branch of the Historical Association.

Notes

Most of the 120 pamphlets published by the Bristol Historical Association (1960-2007) were written by established scholars in the field. They were subject to editorial oversight and peer review from senior academic historians at the University of Bristol and, later, the University of the West of England.